Nooks & Crannies (35 page)
Authors: Jessica Lawson
The author will continue to offer her appreciation for the above list of people with all due fortitude. As Inspector Percival Pensive might say, they are “the sort of company that one invites to dinner, splurging ridiculously on the food and drink in hopes that they'll tell stories long into the evening, perhaps staying on through breakfast. Ah, breakfast; a lovely sort of meal, don't you think?”
Jessica Lawson
does not live in a fancy manor house, but she does deal with mysteries on a daily basis. Most of those mysteries involve missing socks and shadowy dessert disappearances. She lives in Colorado with her husband and children. Visit her online at
jessicalawsonbooks.com
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nooks & crannies / Jessica Lawson.â1st edition.
pages cm
Summary: Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir.
ISBN 978-1-4814-1921-5 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4814-1923-9 (eBook)
[1. Inheritance and successionâFiction. 2. Aristocracy (Social class)âFiction. 3. IdentityâFiction.
4. Great BritainâHistoryâEdward VII, 1901â1910âFiction. 5. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title. II. Title: Nooks and crannies.
PZ7.L438267Noo 2015
[Fic]âdc23
2014023223